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Roman Life in the Days of Cicero; Sketches Drawn From His Letters
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero Sketches Drawn From His Letters Author:Alfred John Church General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Rome Fiction / Historical History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. IN THE DAYS OF THE DICTATOR. In November 82 B. c., Cornelius Sulla became absolute master of Rome. It is not part of my purpose to give a history of this man, He was a great soldier who had won victories in Africa and Asia over the enemies of Rome, and in Italy itself over the "allies," as they were called, that is the Italian nations, who at various times had made treaties with Rome, and who in the early part of the first century B. c. rebelled against her, thinking that they were robbed of the rights and privileges which belonged to them. And he was the leader of the party of the nobles, just as Marius was the leader of the party of the people. Once before he had made himself supreme in the capital; and then he had used his power with moderation. But he was called away to carry on the war in Asia against Mithridates, the greatKing of Pontus ; and his enemies had got the upper hand, and had used the opportunity most cruelly. A terrible list of victims, called the " proscription," because it was posted up in the forum, was prepared. Fifty senators and a thousand knights (peers and gentlemen we should call them) were put to death, almost all of them without any kind of trial. Sulla himself was outlawed. But he had an army which he had led to victory and had enriched with prize-money, and which was entirely devoted to him ; and he was not inclined to let his enemies triumph. He hastened back to Italy, and landed in the spring of ...« less